The Weather in Wellington.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1783, 15 January 1886, Page 3

The Weather in Wellington.

Concerning the recent weather and its welcome change, our* Wellington correspondent writes :— 11 During the last two months the weather in Wellington has been such as to make people pray for rain. Week alter week there was no rain and the sun beat down hotly on the parched streets. Some days when there was no wind I realised the feeling at one moment of being baked in an oven, and at another of being slowly 11 stewed in my own gravy.” Heavens ! how hot it was ! Everybody complained, sickness was prevalent, and the doctors had a busy time of it. There was one day in particular when the atmosphere was charged with smoke from country bush fires, and there wasn’t a'breatb of air. that I began to remember the old days when I lived at Aden, at the mouth of the Bed Sea, and realised what the very hottest spot on the face of the earth was like. If it's any hotter than that in any place beneath the earth, then it must need a pyrometer to register the temperature there. But relief was in store for us in Wellington. At seven o’clock on Tuesday morning I felt a slight spitting of rain. Then a shower or to followed, and at night time there was a steady rain for hours. To-day, Wednesday, the sun shines brightly and the sky is cloadleis. But the streets and roads have been oooled, the horrid heat and glare have passed away, ind once more life is worth living. 1 only hope there will be more rain. It wonld take three days solid rain to thoroughly cool the parched and dried np ground. I hope yon have had rain in the Wairarapa to make your pastures green once more.”